Setting QoS priorities in VLC

[matthank]

I am attempting to stream video, and have a need to set QoS Priorities on the stream. I know that this can be set with setsockopt. Is there a way to do this with VLC, or is there a patch available?

I am using VLC 0.8.6a as both server and client on Windows 2K and XP.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Matt Davis
Sr. QA Test Engineer
DSP Group, Inc.

[teo]

I made a patch for VLC 0.8.5 which enables setting the TOS field with setsockopt.
Windows installer can be downloaded here: http://home.online.no/~andethe/vlc-0.8.5-win32.exe

Keep also in mind that normally Windows controls the ToS field so you need to do this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... US;q248611

Edit: You can set the TOS value you want under: Settings->Preferences->Stream Output->Access output->UDP (check for advanced options). Works only for UDP streaming.

[matthank]

Teo,

Thank you very much. By making my boss very happy, you have made me happy.

Thanks again.

Matt Davis

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

teo: what about releasing your patch and introducing it in trunk ?

[matthank]

Teo,

I am having trouble setting the TID with your changes to VLC. I note there are four settings and am wondering if there is any interaction or if I am setting something wrong. When I set the TOS value to 5, I am expecting the TID in a packet to also be 5 (0110) but on a Sniffer captrue, the TID is consistently 0 (0000). The caching value is set to 300 (default), TTL I've set to 0, 150, and 1000 with no change, and Group Packets is set to the default (1).

I have verified that the DisableUserTOSSetting is disabled in registry on both the transmitting machine and the receiving machine.

Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

Thanks for your help!!
--Matt Davis

[matthank]

Teo,

Now I get it. Once I set the TOS setting to, for example, 160, then I did see the TID change to 5 (Video Priority). Took a little knowledge gathering on my part to understand what the TOS setting really meant.

Thanks for your help!!!

--Matt

[teo]

Matt,

Glad to hear you got it working

j-b,

I'll be gladly release the patch, it's however based on 0.8.5. I tried checking out the trunk from SVN but could not compile (problem posted in Windows VLC forum).
Hopefully someone can help me sort out the compile issues and I'll adapt it to the trunk and post it here.

[ehudkedar]

I am unable to download the special TOS version.
I really need it

Thanks